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Aram Han Sifuentes, Chicago’s exuberantly profane master of the sewing machine, dragged two large blue bags from Ikea across her basement, swinging them like wrecking balls before dropping them to the floor. The bags were overstuffed with fabrics, their crinkly polypropylene sides bulging with materials that had been folded in half, then folded in half again, then again, then squashed down, to make room for more fabrics.

She explained: Since she began the Protest Banner Lending Library — since she began making protest banners last year after the presidential election, then encouraging others to make protest banners — keeping up has been almost impossible. She and her husband,...

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